Mobile Computing and Network Research Group

A huge congratulations to Kashi Nath Datta—now Dr. Kashi Nath Datta! He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November 8, 2024, under my supervision. His thesis, titled "Designing an Efficient Framework for Hybrid Ad Hoc Network Scenarios Using WiFi and VLC," marks a significant achievement.
We also acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr. Satya Bagchi from NIT Durgapur and Dr. Pratik Chakraborty from IIIT Kalyani in his research work. Additionally, we extend our appreciation to our Indian examiner, Prof. Muhammad Abulaish from the Department of CSE at South Asian University (SAU).
My heartfelt congratulations to Kashi for his exceptional work throughout his Ph.D. journey. His accomplishments include publishing in the Journal of Wireless Networks (Springer), presenting a poster paper at MobiCom 2018, contributing two papers at COMSNETS, and another paper at the ICDCN workshop. He also co-authored a book chapter titled "Emergency Communication and Use of ICT in Disaster Management" in the book "Emerging Technologies and Disaster Resilience: Practical Cases and Theories in Wireless Public Safety Networks."
Wishing him all the best in his future endeavors.

Applications are invited from Indian citizens for the muliple posts to work on a project titled “i-PolluSense: Intelligent Air & Noise Pollution Sensing and Alert Companion.” https://sites.google.com/view/ipollusense/home funded by IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I Hub Foundation.

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We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Dr. Krishnandu Hazra, a former PhD student of ours, has achieved the prestigious position of Assistant Professor at IIIT Guwahati, securing a regular appointment. We extend our heartfelt congratulations on this well-deserved achievement.

His thesis title is "Optimal Resource Planning for Situational Information Extraction During Post-Disaster Scenarios ". The topic has been very practical in nature, considering the usual unavailability of conventional communication facilities in the aftermath of a large-scale disaster.

He performed nicely during his PhD work with the publication of four high-impact SCI-indexed Journal papers two in IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management(Q1, Impact factor- 5.3), one in the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications (Q1, Impact factor- 6), one in the Elsevier Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Q1, Impact factor- 4.5), and, and four Conference papers (one full paper in IEEE COMSNETS, One in ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop, and Two full paper in Springer), Two Book Chapters (one Wireless Public Safety Network, Elsevier, and another in Edward Elger), and one patent.

In his research career, he has collaborated with many Indian and Foreign Universities, such as the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (West Bengal, India), Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, Missouri, USA). The University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky, USA), Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA, USA), George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, USA), and Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA).

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=vD1iYKQAAAAJ&hl=en

We are currently working on an Assistive Technology project focused on addressing the needs of individuals with multimodal disabilities, generously funded by TCS. In the course of our project, we have developed a set of unique gestures tailored to assist people with disabilities. Notably, we recently had the honor of hosting Dr. Charudatta Jadhav, the Head of the Accessibility Center of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, for a project evaluation meeting at NIT Durgapur. Dr. Jadhav is not only a visually impaired chess player but also a prominent advocate for chess and a highly regarded professional at Tata Consultancy Services. The team members of the project are Dr. Nilanjan Chattaraj (Principal Investigator), Dr. Sujoy Saha (Co-Principal Investigator), and Dr. Mousumi Saha (Co-Principal Investigator).

Dr. Anupam Mandal, who heads the Speech Processing Group at DRDO, recently attended a team review meeting at NIT Durgapur.The visit was in relation to the project titled "Performance Assessment of Open Source Language Identification (LID), Speaker Diarization, and Speech Enhancement Algorithms," which is funded by CAIR-DRDO, a government entity in India and the team mebers are Dr. Nilanjan Chattaraj (Principal Investigator), Dr. Sujoy Saha (Co-Principal investigator), Dr. Suman Samaui (Co-Principal investigator), Prof. Subrata Nandi (Mentor).This collaborative project engages faculty members, research scholars, and students/Interns from NIT Durgapur's Departments of Electronics & Communication Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town (kolkata), Bengal College of Engineering and Technology (BCET Durgapur).

A Huge congratulations to Krishnandu Hazra. Now he is Dr. Krishnandu Hazra. Krishnandu defended his Ph.D. thesis on 8th August 2022 through the offline seminar under the supervision of Prof. Subrata Nandi , NIT Durgapur and Dr. Sujoy Saha, NIT Durgapur. His thesis title is "Optimal Resource Planning for Situational Information Extraction During Post-Disaster Scenarios ". The topic has been very practical in nature considering the usual unavailability of conventional communication facilities in the aftermath of a large-scale disaster.

We further acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr. Vijay K Shah,George Mason University, USA, Dr. Sandip Chakraborty, IIT kharagpur and Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT kharagpur in his research work from the very beginning.
We also acknowledge our Indian examiner Prof. Sankhayan Choudhury, Department of CSE, University of Calcutta.
My heartiest congratulations to Krishnandu. He performed nicely during his Ph.D. work with the publication of three high-impact SCI-indexed Journal papers (one in the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications (Q1, Impact factor-5.047), one in the Elsevier Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Q1, Impact factor- 4.923), and one in IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management(Q1, Impact factor- 4.758) ), and two Conference papers (one full paper in IEEE COMSNETS, and one full paper in Springer), one Book Chapter in Wireless Public Safety Network, and a patent.

He also has contributed to one more SCI-indexed journal that is published in IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, and 2 conference papers (One in ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop, one in Springer Conference) with his collaborators during this period.

Wish him all the very best in his future endeavors.

Our paper titled "Reliable Backhauling in Aerial Communication Networks against UAV Failures: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
Congratulations!!! to Prasenjit Karmakar (IIT KGP, India), Vijay K. Shah (George Mason University, USA), Satyaki Roy (University of North Carolina, USA), Krishnandu Hazra (KIIT Bhubaneswar, India), Sujoy Saha (NIT Durgapur, India) and Subrata Nandi (NIT Durgapur, India)
We further acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr. Vijay K. Shah, Assistant Professor, George Mason University, USA, and Dr. Satyaki Roy, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, in this research work.

Greetings!

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Call for Submissions
2nd International Workshop on Societal Computing for the Internet of Things & You (SoCIeTY 2023) in conjunction with ICDCN 2023

ICDCN Workshop SoCIeTY 2023:
https://sites.google.com/view/society-2023
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About ICDCN Workshop SoCIeTY 2023:

The 2nd International Workshop on Societal Computing for the Internet of Things & You (SoCIeTY 2023) will be inaugurated in co-location with 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking (ICDCN 2023), and will be held at IIT Kharagpur, India on 7th January, 2023. The workshop aims to be a forum for the eminent researchers in the field of Societal Computing to present their research works, practices and methods, to promote networking and collaboration with peers, and to discuss the state-of-the-art research into IoT systems in the field of Societal Computing through invited position papers from leading experts within India and abroad. This will also help network with their peers and help establish collaborations. Societal Computing being an evolving contemporary multidisciplinary field providing innovative solutions to our real-life social problems, a number of challenging socio-technological concerns have evolved from the massive multidimensional dependence of the society on the IoT-based data-driven computation, which has instigated a direct impact on our society. This demands innovative solutions to ensure the sustainable coexistence of society and technology.

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Call for Papers

The purpose of the International Workshop on Societal Computing for the Internet of Things & You (SoCIeTY 2023) is to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for academics, industrial professionals, educators and policy makers involved in the field to contribute, to disseminate the most innovative researches and developments of all aspects of societal computing using Internet of Things (IoT), such as intelligent/smart objects , environments/spaces, and systems. The workshop discusses several new and challenging management & policy based societal issues which require new technological innovations.
We welcome submissions that identify challenges, report experiences, and discuss progress towards design, solutions or vision/ideas of IoT which will help in contributions to describing techniques applied to real-world problems, novel networking architectures, system designs, and applications and interdisciplinary research involving integration of IoT devices (including wearables), mobile, edge and cloud resources and machine learning techniques with societal computation.

We invite research scholars, researchers, and faculty from institutions as well as industries, from India and aborad, to submit a 6-page paper for consideration for the workshop, following guidelines listed below.

The research topics include, but are not limited to:
Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Applications with IoT
Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
Human Activity Sensing with IoT
Urban Computing with IoT
Environment Monitoring using IoT
Assistive Living with IoT
Intelligent and self-organizing transportation networks & services with IoT
Healthcare Using IoT
Application of IoT in Crisis Mitigation
Application of IoT in Rural Development
Agricultural IoT Application
SDN-based Solutions to Improve IoT for Societal Applications
Blockchain and its societal application with IoT

Workshop Chairs
Prof. Ramesh Chandra Hansdah, IISc Bangalore, INDIA
Prof. Amlan Chakrabarti, University of Calcutta, INDIA
Prof. Radha Tamal Goswami, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, INDIA

TPC Co-Chairs
Dr. Partha Sarathi Paul, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA
Dr. Amulya Ratna Swain, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA
Dr. Ayan Chakraborty, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, INDIA
Dr. Jaydeep Howlader, NIT Durgapur, INDIA

Organizing Co-Chairs
Dr. Nilanjan Chattaraj, NIT Durgapur, INDIA
Dr. Ratna Mandal, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, INDIA
Dr. Satyabrata Maity, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, INDIA
Dr. Manas Ranjan Lenka, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA

Program Committee
Prof. Arijit Sur, IIT Guwahati, INDIA
Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, INDIA
Dr. Sourav Kumar Dandapat, IIT Patna
Dr. Bijoy Chand Chatterjee, South Asian University, New Delhi, INDIA
Dr. Ramchandra Phawade, IIT Dharwad, INDIA
Prof. Subrata Nandi, NIT Durgapur, INDIA
Dr. Rohit Verma, University of Cambridge, England
Dr. Vijay k Shah, George Mason University, USA
Dr. Ranit Chatterjee, Keio University, JAPAN
Dr. Sheerazuddin Ahmad, NIT Calicut, INDIA
Dr. Mousumi Saha, NIT Durgapur, INDIA
Dr. Sajal Mukhopadhyay, NIT Durgapur, INDIA
Dr. Nirnoy Ghosh, IIEST Shibpur, INDIA
Prof. Sarbani Roy, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Dr. Chandryee Chowdhury, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Dr. Anirban Sengupta, Center for Distributed Computing, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Prof. Ram Sarkar, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Prof. Nibaran Sarkar, Jadavpur University, INDIA
Prof. Dipak Kumar Kole, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, INDIA
Dr. Indrajit Bhattacharya, Kalyani Government Engineering College, INDIA
Dr. Arindam Ghosh, DR. B. C. Roy Engineering College, INDIA
Dr. Tamal Mandal, D Y Patil International University, INDIA
Dr. Yusuf Alam, Budge Budge Institute of Technology, INDIA

Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must register the abstract 1 week prior to the full paper submission. Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. The accepted submissions will be published in ACM ICPS along with ICDCN main conference proceedings, and will be available through ACM Digital Library.

The submission link
All submissions must be made electronically in printable pdf format through the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcn23

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 15th September, 2022
Acceptance Notification: 15th October, 2022
Camera-Ready Version: 31st October, 2022
Workshop Date: 7th January, 2023

Contacts
For general inquiries about the workshop, please mail to the following contact: [email protected]

Regards
Team SoCIeTY 2023

URL: https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/conf/ICDCN23/workshops.html

ICDCN 2023 About SoCIeTY 2023

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Research Project Title: Developing a universal interface which can be helpful for any modalities in any environment for all users

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Congratulations!!! Ratna Mandal (NIT Durgapur), Nitin Agarwal (NIT Durgapur), Saikat Kumar Dey (NIT Durgapur), Sujoy Saha (NIT Durgapur), Subrata Nandi (NIT Durgapur) and Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur) for the acceptance of the paper titled "GPS Crowdsensing for Public Stoppage Planning of City Buses: A Perspective of Developing Economies" in the ACM/IEEE COMSNETS 2022 (14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS) Joint work with IIT Kharagpur to develops an auto-tuned mechanism for identifying the bus-stops and characterizing their Spatio-temporal features from the GPS trails obtained through spatial crowdsensing.

We further acknowledge the assistance provided by Dr. Sandip Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

Key Contribution of the Research Paper:
(1) Characterizing unscheduled bus stops to understand the public transport demands in the face of rapid urbanization, particularly for low and middle-economy countries.
(2) Developing a hierarchical clustering based approach with feature engineering to design an automated bus-stop extraction mechanism from GPS trails, under the scenario when the stop-points are ad-hoc and follow neither a spatial nor a temporal pattern.
(3) Evaluation of proposed model with a large pool of data-sets containing ∼6000 km of GPS trails on4routes from Durgapur, a suburban town in India with high accuracy and low false-positive rate.